Re: Goffice and cairo

[Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel pacaud univ-poitiers fr>]

(I'm resending this mail, since first one including sample outputs is waiting moderator approval)

Le dimanche 10 septembre 2006 à 17:25 +0000, Jean Bréfort a écrit :
> > I'm working on the graph cairo renderer for quite some time now, and is
> > in good shape with just one known regression with respect to
> > libart/gnomeprint/svg renderers 
> > ( see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341993 ). It even adds
> > some nice additionnal features like mutiline labels in svg export,
> > pretty log axis labels, and ps/pdf export.
>
> Last time I tested the cairo pdf exporter, I got just a bitmap which was
> of too low resolution for correct printing (and even on screen when
> zoomed). Do cairo have god ps and pdf backends these days?

Using cairo 1.2 it's better now. Things are rendered mostly as vector,
and in case of image fallback, resolution is higher (currently 150 ppi).
Marker are still rendered as low resolution images, but that's easy to
fix.

        Emmanuel.